Writing a language parser in D

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, div0 <div0 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> Justin Johansson wrote:
>> Can D people please recommend suitable tools for generating a parser (in D) for an LL(1) grammar.  There's bound to be much better parser generator tools available nowadays, since my last foray into this area 10+ years ago with YACC.  I've heard of tools like bison, SableCC etc but apart from the names know nothing about them.
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>> (Note.  This question is not about writing a parser for D.  It is about writing a parser in D for another language which has an LL(1) grammar).
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>> Thanks in advance for all help.
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>> -- Justin Johansson
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> I've ported boost::spirit to d. No idea if it does what you want,
> but I've written some fairly complicated grammars with it.
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> It's not a tool though, you just define your grammar directly in code.
> Which is either a plus or a minus depending on your point of view.
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> Quick intro:
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> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/spirit/classic/index.html
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> And D implementation:
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> http://www.sstk.co.uk/spiritd.php

I'm not seeing the powershell script or test app in that .zip file.
I don't really need it, I was just curious what the syntax looked like
without any operator overloading.

--bb